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[INC Manipur @INCManipur]

The Congress Legislature Party has urged the Hon’ble Governor of Manipur to convene an emergency session of Manipur Legislative Assembly on the ongoing unprecedented turmoil in the state. BJP’s misgovernance and apathy is destroying Manipur.

[gordhan @gordhan]

@AmitShah @narendramodi Let's talk about Manipur. BJP wasting too much money and the goodwill of voters for PR.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", is allegedly proclaimed by Jesus.

But it is found, in one form or another, in many religious traditions.

The 1993 "Declaration Toward a Global Ethic" from the Parliament of the World's Religions proclaimed the Golden Rule ("We must treat others as we wish others to treat us") as the common principle for many religions.

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baháʼí Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

Does one need to be religious to believe in the Golden Rule and behave in accordance with it?

Clearly not. Not a single one of the myriad religious versions of the golden rule requires a God.

Furthermore, many secular humanist, freethinker, and atheist organizations embrace the Golden Rule as a guiding moral principle, regarding it both as an expression of innate human empathy and a prescription for social harmony.

Publishing on the Freedom from Religion Foundation website, Amy LaValle Hansmann, founder of the Brainerd Area Atheists & Freethinkers Association, writes:

"I've found that morality can be quite easily boiled down to one simple piece of guidance, which is commonly referred to as "the golden rule."

"Humanists try to embrace the moral principle known as the ‘Golden Rule’, otherwise known as the ethic of reciprocity, which means we believe that people should aim to treat each other as they would like to be treated themselves – with tolerance, consideration, and compassion.

"Humanists like the Golden Rule because of its universality, because it is derived from human feelings and experience, and because it requires people to think about others and try to imagine how they might think and feel. It is a simple and clear default position for moral decision-making."

As another example, the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists has this to say:

"Common to almost all systems of ethical and religious beliefs is the golden rule. This was recorded over 2500 years in both ancient Greece and in the teaching of Confucius. The golden rule simply put is to treat others as you would like them to treat you.

"The ramifications of such a simple rule are considerable:

"You must conduct yourself honestly towards others if you want people to be honest with you.

"We have to cooperate with each other to create the society that we want to live in.

"You must allow others the freedom to believe what they like if you want to have the same freedom. Everyone should be free to decide what gives their own life meaning and purpose.

"You must allow others to express their opinion, no matter how silly or plain wrong you think it is if you want to be able to freely express yours. You don’t have to respect their opinion but you must respect their right to have one.

"You must allow others to live in peace if you want to have safety and security. You must not become preoccupied only with your own interests and forget the rest of the community.

"You must be considerate of other people and respect their rights if you want them to respect yours. All rights come with the associated responsibility to grant the same right to others.

"Sometimes people argue that the Golden Rule is imperfect because it makes the assumption that everyone has the same tastes and opinions and wants to be treated the same in every situation. But the Golden Rule is a general moral principle..."

However, in his essay 'Tolerance is not a moral precept', Yonatan Zunger writes that it is time to retire the notion of the Golden Rule as a moral absolute.

"Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats.

It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business.

But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms.

It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others."

"We often forget (or ignore) that no right is absolute because one person’s rights can conflict with another’s.

This is why freedom of speech doesn’t protect extortion, and the right to bear arms doesn’t license armed robbery.

Nor is this limited to rights involving the state; people can interfere with each other’s rights with no government involved, as when people use harassment to suppress other people’s speech.

While both sides of that example say they are “exercising their free speech,” one of them is using their speech to prevent the other’s: these are not equivalent."

"Among the worst wars of tolerance were the religious wars that tore through Europe between 1524 and 1648.

These wars were predicated on precisely the sort of incompatibility described above, with Protestants and Catholics each seeing the other as existential threats.

As states aligned with each side, the penalty for disagreement became exile or death, a condition no one could accept.

"But even after six generations of fighting, and tens of millions of dead, these wars came to an end. The Peace of Westphalia, the series of treaties which ended them, was built on two radical tenets: that each ruler had the right to choose the religion of their state, and that Christians living in principalities where their faith was not the established faith still had the right to practice their religion.

"The Peace of Westphalia was the political foundation for the concept of secularism: that religious matters are so uncertain that the state should not have the power to mandate them.

It remains one of the classic peace treaties between fundamentally incompatible groups. It was also, in turn, the basis for the concept of religious freedom brought by European settlers to North America; the American Bill of Rights is its direct descendant."

"...tolerance, viewed as a moral absolute, amounts to renouncing the right to self-protection; but viewed as a peace treaty, it can be the basis of a stable society. Its protections extend only to those who would uphold it in turn.

To withdraw those protections from those who would destroy it does not violate its moral principles; it is fundamental to them because, without this enforcement, the treaty would collapse."

Tolerance is not a moral precept.

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[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Whatever your faith...If your faith is so rattled by ads, jokes, books, movies and art....it's not that strong. If you need the whole world to feel the same way you do...you're the one lacking conviction.

[Netra @Netrabasumatary]

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[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Why are the Indian Railways charging the already distressed stranded workers for their travel? @PMOIndia

[Jahnabi upadhyay @JahnabiUpadhyay]

@narendramodi @AmitShah sir! We are students of Delhi from Assam. Approx 200 in group stuck in Delhi and willing to return home. We're feeling left out and want to be with our partners. GoA has suggested to proceed privately but we are not so stable to proceed. Please help us.

[Jahnabi upadhyay @JahnabiUpadhyay]

@AmitShah @ArvindKejriwal @SatyendarJain Sir! We're students from Assam in Delhi,willing to return home. Devastated and terrified of the situation, willing to be with family. Please arrange some transportational help to us. We are strapped and helpless. Please show some kindness.

[Jyoti Singh @JyotiSi69918473]

Me and every single person respect the decisions made by our government but day by day situation is getting worst and there are many people from Assam who are stuck in Delhi please help us, we all want to go back# we request #arvindkejariwal #HimantaBiswaSarma

[Sparsita Kalita @sparsita]

@himantabiswa @narendramodi @sarbanandsonwal @ArvindKejriwal please help all the students and other people stuck in Delhi to reach back home. There are around 200 students so please provide a safe transportation. #studentsstuckindelhi #takebacktoassam

[Netra @Netrabasumatary]

@himantabiswa @cmpatowary @sarbanandsonwal
Sir we are students stranded in Delhi and Noida. It's been a struggle as we are trying to go to our homeland #Assam. We have not received any responses to our pleas. Help us.